The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-08-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Topics OF tho Times Given in Terss aud
Spicy Manner.

OPAOy HAhhhoAs
King William, of Holland, aged seventy
one, is slowly dying
The English railroad strike has collapsed.
The strikers lacked organization.
Sugar output of the Sandwich islands is
only 80 per cent, of last years crop.
Losses by fire in the United States and
Canada in July were over Sl4,OOO,OJO.
An aged man and his wife named Culby
were killed by robbers at Lock Haven, Pa.
New York's Union Labor party meets in
con vention at Rochester, tonominate state
| ticket
New York and Pitt,burg capitalists bought
100, 900 acres of pine in Georgia and South
\ Carolina.
Steamer City Of Ashland burned on Lake
| Michigan six miles Off the Wisconsin shore.
| One life was lost
William Sampson and James Herron
Pittsburg, while repairing natural gas
main, were suffocated.
Tho trial of Warden Hamilton for the
murder of Editor Gambrell, political
crime, at jackson, Miss, has begun,
Canada will put swift steam launches
instead of sailing vessels in her fishery
waters to prevent illegal fishing by Ameri-
cans.
During a picnic near Charleston, w Va,
Monday, a swing filed with people broke
fifty feet above the ground. A child aud a
| lady were killed
Senator Sherman Secretary of State Gen.
| Robinson Congressman Grosvenor, ex-Con-
gresham Townsend and Judge Thompson,
all of Ohio are in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
William Carson, deputy sheriff of Coneios
| county, Colorado, eldest son of the famous
Kit Carson, was murdered by a Mexican
named Virgil whom ho was trying to ar
| rest.
A wild man, whose hair and beard
! dragged the ground, has been captured
near Oakland Iii. 1t required twelve mon
TO hold him. He speaks an unintelligible
jargon.
A colored woman named Annie Watkins,
who was to have been buried Monday at
Paducah, Ky, surprised the assembled
quests by sitting up III her coffin. She viii
recover
Charles Greatham, Of Ca5talia, O., was
killed by kick in the forehead from
| horse. A seyen-year-o.d son of William
Witt, of Nloawequa, ILL.,, was killed in the
same way.
The dairyman of the Fox River Valley,
| ILL.,, have formed protective league, and
propose to raise the price of milk to twenty
cents a gallon, They are losing heavily on
| account of the great drouth.
In the Mccoy murder case at Portsmouth,
| Ohio, John Stewart has filed affidavit
| againt Juror j. d. Craig, charging perjury
in swearing as to his qualifcations---that he
| had not expressed an opinion. 1t is hoped
| thereby to secure new trial for Mccoy.
The escape of McGarigle is to be made an
international question, Chicago authorities
| alleging that Canadian citizens aided in the
booder's fight A special grand jury will
! be called to indict such of Cnicago's citizens,
including DR.. St. John, who helped MAC"
get away.
Elizabeth K. Peter has brought suit in the
| courts at Cincinnati to restrain the county
auditor and treasurer from levying and col
lecting an assessment under the Dow law
against her property, which had been rented
by Jacob Gerschmay for the sale of liquor
and abandoned by him without paying the
tax. In effect it is a suit TO test the lien
clause of the Dow law.